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By Faith Kaiser

Fiction. Women's Studies. Abigail Stewart returns to her childhood home in Coastal Alabama. Her need to embrace her once rejected Southern heritage is equally weighed by her desire to unearth the mysteries surrounding her dark and dangerous childhoo...

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By John Shea

Fiction. Winner of the Tartt First Fiction Award. TALES FROM WEBSTER'S uses a simple premise: Take a dictionary, choose a word, then faithfully follow each sequential word to construct a narrative, employing no more than fifty words per sequential e...

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By Steve Cushman

Fiction. Hope comes as a hopscotch board on the sidewalk entrance of a hospital in Greensboro. Despite efforts to remove the board, it re-appears until physicians, hospital employees, and patients, including Emily, an 8-year-old fighting cancer, and...

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By Terence Gallagher

Fiction. When James Ward, a high-school freshman living in Queens, meets Cornelia Parsons he gains entry into a very old, very secretive, and to him very attractive world. Cornelia and her enigmatic guardian Miss Widdershins belong to a confederatio...

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By Don Noble and Jennifer Horne, editors

Fiction. Women's Studies. BELLES' LETTERS 2 affords a variety of fiction being written by Alabama women. A number of stories are love stories—first loves, lost loves, strange loves, from transient, feckless, grotesque, even abusive, to permanent and...

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By Philip Cioffari

Fiction. Five teenagers attempt to swim the East River from the Bronx to Queens. One boy drowns and the body of the only girl is never found. The survivors vow silence. Five years later, they find themselves at the mercy of the drowned boy's brother...

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By Matthew Cashion

Fiction. Chaos will surely ensue when Judith Owen allows her first husband, a jobless jokester of a salesman, to move into her coastal Georgia backyard "condo" thirty years after she divorced him. Married six times each, they argue over what advice ...

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By Corey Mesler

Fiction. ROBERT WALKER is homeless. He awakes one morning in his box to find half his face paralyzed. In anguish, he walks to mimic normality. He also walks because walking for him is life. Eventually, in opposition to his dedication to desired anon...

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By Chris Tusa

Fiction. Dead birds are falling out of the sky and Maurice Delahoussaye suspects the air in New Orleans may be unsafe. The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries claims the birds were poisoned, while meteorologists suggest they were killed by a sudden...

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By Jim Harris

Fiction. AS GOD LOOKED ON is a dark comedic narrative with threads that begin on a bus ride to Daytona and along a mountainside in southern Mexico: one young woman running from a murder and away from her young son; a young Mexican boy and his aunt h...

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By Gray Stewart

Fiction. Southern Literature. Winner of the 2017 Georgia Author of the Year Award. Travis Hemperly is a white southerner who has never been the minority in any room he's ever entered. He has also just joined the history faculty at a historically bla...

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By Maureen Millea Smith

Fiction. Winner of the Tartt First Fiction Award. A prison's visitation room; a veterinarian who understands the thoughts of animals; an Omaha police sergeant; a banking executive who consoles her dying friend; a librarian who sleeps with giraffes; ...

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By Curt Leviant

Fiction. Jewish Studies. A serio-comic novel that tells of Shmulik Gafni, a professor of Yiddish. Two narratives contrast: One: Gafni's extended search in Poland for the man who murdered his father in the notorious Kielce pogrom. Two: Gafni's infatu...

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By Owen Duffy

Fiction. California Interest. Very few know the role women played in the early years of car racing. THE ARTICHOKE QUEEN tells the story of a beautiful driver and her dizzying career and relationships. It combines 1950's Americana and the thrill of r...

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By Jim Sanderson

Fiction. Set between Austin and San Antonio, HILL COUNTRY PROPERTY traces the development of Roger Jackson from promising law student to private detective spying on cheating spouses. Of course, his own wife and in-laws are involved.